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Who Is Affected by Stroke
About 795,000 people in the United States have a stroke each year. About 610,000 are first strokes and about 185,000 are recurrent attacks:1
- Stroke is a leading cause of death, behind heart disease and cancer.
- Stroke is a leading cause of serious, long-term disability in the United States.
- Women are less likely than men to have a stroke in almost all age ranges. But because women live longer than men, their lifetime risk of stroke is higher than for men. And more women than men die from strokes every year.
- Blacks are almost twice as likely as whites to have a stroke.
| By: | Healthwise Staff | Last Revised: January 7, 2011 |
| Medical Review: | E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine Richard D. Zorowitz, MD - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | |
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